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Xavier Jaravel.

Xavier Jaravel

Associate

Expertise: labour, innovation

Telephone:
020 7955 6698
Email:
x.jaravel@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 3.14
Connect:
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Links:
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Biography

Dr Xavier Jaravel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, where he teaches public economics and how to use micro data and methods to answer macro questions. His research focuses on innovation and productivity, with related work on trade and applied econometrics. He is also a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis, a non-partisan body which advises the Prime Minister, and the 2019 recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize

Current areas of research include:

  • The distributional effects of housing inflation

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

What is the nature of the distributional effects of trade? This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of "trade-induced horizontal inequality," i.e., inequality brought about by trade shocks that... Read more...

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

04 April 2023

CEP discussion papers
Modern manufacturing capital, labor demand and product market dynamics: evidence from France

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2017 to document the effects of a fall in the cost of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technolog... Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

29 March 2023

CEP discussion papers
Social push and the direction of innovation

Innovators are intrinsically-motivated individuals who use ideas to create new goods and services. This raises the possibility that their social backgrounds may affect the direction of their innovative activity. Consiste... Read more...

Elias Einiö, Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel

13 July 2022

CEP discussion papers
Nonparametric measurement of long-run growth in consumer welfare

How should we measure long-run changes in consumer welfare? This paper proposes a nonparametric approach that is valid under arbitrary preferences that depend on observable consumer characteristics, e.g. when expenditure... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel and Danial Lashkari

12 July 2022

Chapter
The effects of automation on labor demand: a survey of the recent literature

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation,... Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

13 June 2022

Journal article
Inflation Inequality: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications

Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in four areas. First, new price i... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel

01 August 2021

Journal article
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

Many studies use shift-share (or “Bartik”) instruments, which average a set of shocks with exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for shift-share instrumental variable (SSIV) regressions in which ... Read more...

Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull and Xavier Jaravel

08 June 2021

Blog
Trade with China benefited US consumers

International trade is widely viewed as creating winners and losers in an economy. Influential work has documented that US labour markets were heavily disrupted by the surge of imports following China’s joining the World... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

20 August 2019

CEP discussion papers
What are the price effects of trade? Evidence from the US and implications for quantitative trade models

This paper finds that U.S. consumer prices fell substantially due to increased trade with China. With comprehensive price micro-data and two complementary identification strategies, we estimate that a 1pp increase in imp... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

08 August 2019

Journal article
Joseph Schumpeter Lecture, EEA Annual Congress 2017: Do Tax Cuts Produce more Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives VerSus Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursu... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

01 June 2019

Journal article
Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States, focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) versus environment (“nurture”). Using deidentified data on 1.2 million invento... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

01 May 2019

Journal article
The unequal gains from product innovations: Evidence from the U.S. Retail sector

This article examines how product innovations led to inflation inequality in the United States from 2004 to 2015. Using scanner data from the retail sector, I find that annual inflation for retail products was 0.661 (std... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel

01 May 2019

CEP discussion papers
Do tax cuts produce more Einsteins? The impacts of financial incentives vs. exposure to innovation on the supply of inventors

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursu... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

24 January 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Lost Einsteins: who becomes an inventor in America?

Who are America’s most successful inventors – and what can we learn from their experiences in designing policies to stimulate innovation? To answer these questions, former CEP director John Van Reenen and his colleagues ... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

01 March 2018

Blog
Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over one million inv... Read more...

Alexander Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

24 December 2017

CEP discussion papers
Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States, focusing on the role of inventive ability ('nature') vs. environment ('nurture'). Using de-identified data on 1.2 million inventors... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

11 December 2017

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